Tri-County Bulletin, 1898-01-18

"that little bill means to him the loss of considerable of the profit from the sale of his other goods. If all the grocer's customers refuse to settle their "little bills" the result is that the grocer cannot settle his big bill with the wholesale firms, and if too many grocers cannot settle their bills with the wholesalers it means finan financial - cial financial stringency for the latter,- thus in injuring - juring injuring and cramping trade. All of us are wont to complain over du.l business and the tightness of the money market. A great deal of this cramp and tightness we can relieve by settling our own "little bills" butcher, baker and candle candlestick - stick candlestick maker, not forgetting the doc doctor, - tor, doctor, who has been faithful in his min ministrations - istrations ministrations during the year, and the druggist, who has filled his prescrip prescriptions - tions prescriptions to your saying, "I'll pay that next time I come around." Settle up accounts with your earthly credi creditors - tors creditors the first thing this New Year, and after that you'll feel in a better frame of mind to make resolutions and make affairs between you and heaven a little less uneven.

white capped a few nights befo', an' a little shootin' scrape at the camp nieetin' Sunday, an' a fight at a wed weddin' - din' weddin' Sadderday night, an' a magic lantern showman egged or clubbed, or suthin'that-a-way, the other night, an' a nigger or two lynched the first of the week for suthin' or ruther, 1 didn t learn what, presizelv. Xo; thar ain't nutliin' wurth mentionin' goin' on out my way. to think about it, though, I seen a sawter funny tiling as 1 was riflin' in today. Jig Plunkett, that lives about half way betwixt vere an' Gooseneck - you know Jig, I reckon? - has be.n sick for quite spell, an' last night he was took worse an' be begun - gun begun to turn blue around the mouth an' pick at the bed clothes quite a good deal. This luawnin' his folks whirled in an' sent for Doc Tolliver, an' he got thar jest as 1 was stoppin' to kinder inquire how Jig was gittin' along. When the doctor went in at the do' at one side of the house Jig came out of the winder at the other side, dressed in a crazy quilt, air went flappin' across the yard an' right up a tall mulberry tree that stood by the well.

Two nice photos for io cents at William's gallery. BULLETIN PREMIUMS. 1. Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer. 2. 200 good envelopes, printed. 3. 200 good note heads, printed. 4. 100 envelopes and 100 note heads, printed. Neither offer good after Jan. 31st. Get OUR prices on Job Printing. Tri-County Farmers' Institute, March 2d and 3rd. While preparing dinner, last Tues Tuesday, - day, Tuesday, Mrs. O. N. Gunn was disagree disagreeably - ably disagreeably surprised by a gas explosion, which blowed the top of the stove off and collapsed the water reservoir. Nothing more serious than a big scare resulted, - Maumee Advance. R. A. Housley, Grand Rapids, Ohio, desires to say to the people of the neighborhood that he is engaged in the saw milling business, and that he makes a specialty of custom work. Logs may be brought an 1 the lumber {aken home the same day. Work will be done as cheaply as anybody anybodycan - can anybodycan doit - and perhaps cheaper. Will trade pine and other foreign stock for native logs, or will buy your logs and pay a good price in cash or trade. Bring in your logs. Good work guaranteed. Planing mill in con connection. - nection. connection. i9tf

"1 he doctor an' the family done the best they could to git him down. Mis wife an' children pleaded with him, an' the doctor commanded - but, pshaw! lie jest hung on like a bat an' let 'engtalk. Then they lit in to tryin' to rock him down, but at the end of half an hour all they had ac accomplished - complished accomplished was to tire themselves out an' drive h'm higher up the tree. Like enough he'd have continnered to hang thar till he got ripe an' fell off, if an' old feller, from away back in the hills somewhurs, hadn't come drivin' along about that time, an', as soon as he seen what was goin' on, dug a long, brown squirrel rifle up out of the bottom of his wagon an' began to blaze away at Jig. "The first bullet barked the tree close to his nose, an' the second one cropped his south ear, an' down he came a-scrabblin' an' a tumblin'. By' the time he struck the ground the old feller from the hills had hopped over i the fence with a rope in his hands an' | grabbed Jig an' noosed it around his ! neck btfo' he could git up. The old I feller was considerably' dissappointed

BE MANLY. Has any Dealer Accommodated You the Past Yeatv/vlf so, Hearken to This Little Sermon, This is the first of the year, and on which we are supposed to set settle - tle settle up accounts with our consciences, make good resolutions and also pay out money on the credit which has been given us during the year. One only has to think for a minute to realize that this settling of the old year's accounts before entering into the personal and business opening of another twelve-month, has a most heavy bearing upon trade. The "lit "little - tle "little bill" which the grocer asks for when he meets you, signifying that he thinks it has been due long enough, is a small item of itself. It may be on'y few dollars, but it means consid considerable - erable considerable to the man who has advanced you money in the way of goods, practically taking no security but his belief in your personal honesty. The loss, or even the delayed payment of

A QUESTION. The publisher of a newspaper has one thing to sell and one thing to rent. He has the newspaper to sell and the space in his columns to rent. Can anyone inform us why he should be expected to give away either the one or the other? He can if he so chooses, and he does, as a matter of fact, furnish a great deal of space rent free. Hut it does not follow that he ought to be expected to do so. It ought to be recognized as a contribu contribution, - tion, contribution, exactly as would be the giving away of sugar or coffee by a grocer. But, strange to say, it is not looked upon in that light at all, yet every everybody - body everybody knows that the existence of a newspaper depends upon the rent of its space and the sale of the paper, as a merchant's success depends on sell selling - ing selling his goods instead of giving them away.

EAST PROVIDENCE, Personal Gossip and Neighbor^ hood News. January 15th, 1S9S. Mrs. James Eahr was in Toledo, last Wednesday. George I.ong was in Napoleon, this week, on business. E. Hooker, of Waterville, called on O. P. Heller, Monday. Mrs. Dora Spitler visited her moth mother, - er, mother, Mrs. Boroughf, last week. Social dance at Emil Graf's, Satur Saturday - day Saturday evening, was well attended. Ezra Morningstar, of Fancher. was in Napoleon, last week, on business. Emanuel Eahr has been quite sick for the last few weeks, but is improv improving. - ing. improving. Miss Jessie Crockett is spelling a few weeks with her sister, Mrs. John Winover, of Texas, O.